006 Betsy DeVos is Education Secretary: All Child's Left Behind

Betsy DeVos is Education Secretary: All Child's Left Behind Betsy DeVos is likely to win a highly contested nomination and become the next Secretary of Education, despite a 24-hour marathon hail mary effort by Democrats to stop the nomination. The Senate vote is likely to be evenly split 50-50, with 2 Republican Senators defected—and for those of you out there making phone calls to your Republican Senators to block Devos, keep calling. Last week, two Republican lawmakers, Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, announced plans to vote against DeVos, leaving Senate Republicans one vote short of confirming her— citing as a reason for crossing the isle the “overwhelming number of phone calls they had received from constituents bout this issue. *** Trump: The US is “Not So Innocent. We’ve got a lot of killers.” Donald Trump was bracingly honest with Bill O’Reilly in his Super Bowl Sunday Interview, refusing to shy away from the fact that the Unites States is “not so nice” – in response to O’Reilly’s incredulity over Trump’s admiration of Vladimir Putin. “He’s a killer!” O'Reilly said, to which Trump responded: "We Got a lot of Killers! You think our country is so innocent?” We will dig deeper in those statements and find out what lies behind them. *** Trump’s Media Conspiracy Theory Speaking at US Central Command and Special Operations Command headquarters in Tampa yesterday, Donald Trump accused the media of conspiring to NOT report terrorist attacks. I’m not kidding. Those are the stories we will cover today PLUS listener comments including the comment from my Mom: she joining the majority of you who thought that I was either demanding too much of Lady Gaga or just plain missed the full meaning of her performance Super Bowl Sunday as I discussed it on yesterday's show. Tags Betsy Devos, Devos confirmation hearing, Secretary of education, Donald Trump, Bill O’Reilly, Interview, podcast, a Trump Show